Sun Belt additions official

3:11 AM,
Mar. 28, 2013

Written by

Tim Buckley
tbuckley@theadvertiser.com

The Sun Belt Conference didn't just get bigger when it announced - as fully expected - the additions of current FCS programs Georgia Southern and Appalachian State as full-time members starting in 2014 and of established FBS schools New Mexico State and Idaho as football-only members beginning in the same year.

It also, in UL head coach Mark Hudspeth's estimation, got better as a football league.

"Regardless of if, you know, everybody's worried about, 'Are we letting in some FCS teams?' " Hudspeth said, "here's my deal: This league is way tougher now than it was last year. ...